Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. But this newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said. (Pluto completes one lap around the sun every 248 Earth years.)
"The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun," discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. "They let us piece together the history of our solar system."
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The exact size of 2015 RR245 is not yet known, but the researchers think it's about 435 miles (700 kilometers) wide. Pluto is the largest resident of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of 1,474 miles (2,371 km).
The research team first spotted 2015 RR245 in February of this year, while poring over images that the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii took in September 2015 as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
"There it was on the screen this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said.
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bmk for later.
His presentation, which lasts about an hour and a half, is a talk-through of the content, with some modern viewpoint, and a bit of interpretation of the “What’s the point of all this?” sort. As I said, I was amused, and I also encountered a few new thoughts.
One of the more interesting things I found in Genesis is that, when you line up all the birth years and the ages and things there were people alive when Noah built his famous yacht who were also alive before Adam died.
Perhaps is is that Noah remained righteous because he talked to his forbearers.
I had today off from work so I as at home working today.
New Year’s Day observed or some such.
Enneyhoo, I rode the Q from the new 2nd Avenue Subway line the way I will ride it to work tomorrow. As long as the trains continue run it is much faster than going all the way up to Lexington (Lesinton according to the bus drivers) and taking the 6. We’ll see about the crowds tomorrow.
Good point. Scott Hahn mentions that some ancient Jewish sources say that Melchizedek, King of Salem is the same person as Shem, the son of Noah, and the lifespan ascribed to Shem makes this a possibility.
Best wishes for your public transportation adventures.
A few of the boids are back.
It snowed most of the day, mostly flurries, but snow none-the-less.
There is less snow on the ground now than there was this morning.
That’s nice. We had lots of birds today after the heavy rain stopped.
Lots of folks have made some points about Genesis you may not have considered. Even Clarence Darrow has done so.
Possibly it's because most of us don't get much further than Genesis in our studies.
I usually hear that right after I hump the bag or two of water softener salt down the basement steps and pour it in the softener.
The bag/s usually have been sitting by the cellar door for a week or more by that time, but no one, as they stumble on them in passing, seems to equate salt bags by door with the need for them to get assistance descending the stairs. Salt bags are so unmotivated that they won't do it on their own..
;>)
Good morning. It is raining and dark here, but we are starting the new year for real.
Same here, but temps last night hovered at 40f, absolutely balmy.
My weather-feed says 48. 60s today, low of 50 tonight, rain moving away.
I thought the longevity of the people of the earth was deliberate, so they could “live long and have sons and daughters.” It really wasn’t their fault that the kids turned out to be such an entitled generation, that the Flood was necessary. I mean, there was no real law except in direct line of descent, meaning those who “walked with God,” and were obedient to His Laws. That seemed to be a narrow bunch of people, rather linear, than fan-shape, as a genealogy chart.
I’m reading a book called, “The Bible As History,” and it explores the Flood as well as Biblical names and places and cites chapter and verse when those places have been unearthed. Though I’m sure the wars in the Middle East have changed the faces of the landscape in a lot of Biblical sites.
At the moment, I’m only about half through it, and as I started the Bible again a couple of weeks ago, it helps me to understand.
(I got it on eBay, in case anyone is wondering.)
I’ve read some analyses that discuss the geography of the Middle East in the context of the information given in the Bible. This history and archaeology often coincide.
There is a famous incident of World War I General Allenby’s planning a battle based on what he remembered from the Book of Samuel, like, “Didn’t Saul go through a pass about here?”
I've started the Bible again a couple of weeks ago (just before I headed for AR) but it took me an entire year to read it -- three to four pages a night. So I am in Genesis, and I WILL read the entire Bible again. One of these days, I may get my life organized to such a state that I can use a study guide with it and understand it even more.
For now, "The Bible As History" is giving me a better understanding than I had my first time through Genesis.
I was just reading about that pass, and the author of the book quotes an archaeologist as saying almost the same thing, and found the pass and the valley it led into. Interesting. Of course, we’re talking early excavations, some in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, but still, the Biblical places are “there.”
When I was a Sophomore in a Catholic high school in Salt Lake City, our religion class included a book of Biblical history — citing the areas and world history that coincided with the Bible. I’ve never forgotten that class, but I wish I could recall the name of the book. I don’t even know if the school is still in existence.
All this Biblical talk (and me, the tailgate of the conversation, as usual) made me forget to comment on the basket of squee that you found this morning.
And I have a question: Did you hug and kiss the new washer and get up in the night to sing to it?
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